Meat tenderer



June 7 1927. 1,631,869

W. F. JUREY MEAT TENDERER Filed May 2, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 /f if wfzz/z a ATTORNEY INVENTOR Lin Patented June 7, 1927.

W SLEY JUREY, or NQRCATUR, KANSAS.

MEAT TENb RE v I Application mama 2, 1925. Serial No. 27,601.

This invention relates to improvements in meat tenderers or inasticators and conte1nplates the provision. of a framehavlng transversely disposed superimposed shafts extending therethrough and including a plurality of fixed meshing between which portions of meat may pass 1n the process of tendering the same before cooking. I

Another object of the invention is the provision of a hinged top for the frame and including set screws therein which have their inner ends engaging the upper portions of the upper shaft hearings in order that the gears may be regulated tovarious adjustmonts owing to the thickness of. the meat to be passed therebetween. Y

A further ob 'ect of the invention is the provision of a removable platform arranged upon the bottom and and outwardly therefrom and including a transversely disposed platform upon the upper end thereof and which will guide the meat and the like between the gears in the process of-tendering or masticating'the. meat.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further includes'the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section thereof.

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary side elevation of one of the inner sides of the frame and bearings. a

Figure 6 is a fragmentary side elevation of one side of the frame and showing the mounting of the operating handle and removable top for the frame.

Referring to the drawings wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a substantially rectangular frame preferably formed of channel bars and one side of which includes a lower inwardly extending substantially offset p0rtion 11 having adjusting screw or the'like as indicated at 12 and which is adapted to be threaded within this portion 11 in order that the edge of a table or the like may he gears arranged thereon and extending upwardly v in 1 detail,

inserted and held rigidly between the upper 'endof the adjusting screw 12 and the bottom of the frame 10 in order, thatthe said frame will he held rigidly in place during the process of operation. Formed upon the inner and opposite sides of thefran'ie 10 and adjacent the lower portion thereof are substantially semi-cylindrical bearings 13 which receiveithe opposite end portions of a driven shaft 14' which in turn has a, plurality of gears. 15 keyed or otherwise fixed thereon and whiclrm'ay. be of any size and ratio of gearing upon their peripheries. The driving shaft 16 has its opposite ends journaled within correspondingly shaped oppositely disposed bearings 17 arranged above and in spaced relation to the bearings 13 and which are in turn connected with a substantially U .sl1aped inverted frame 18 which extends an appreciable distance thereabove and the shaft in-turn includes aplurality of corres: pondingly shaped and geared gears. 19 which are meshed with the gears 15 while the outer portion of the shaft 16 extends through a vertically extending slotted portion 20 provlded inthe corresponding side of the frame "10 andhas its'outer end substantially offset and terminating in.- .an operating handle 21.

will be noted from the foregoing descriptlon and accompanying drawings that owing to the mountings of the shafts 14 and 16 respectively within the bearings 13 and 17 that no force or regulation as to the space between the gears "15 and 19. is provided and that meat will freely pass between these gears Without exercising any stress thereupon and in order to. provide such means as will hold the gears 15 and 19 in their respective. spaced and regulated positions I providea top 22 which is also preferably channel shaped and which is pivoted as at 23 to one side of the frame 10 and its opposite end normally receiving a pin 24 there through which in turn extends through a portion of the opposite side bar forming the frame 10 in order that the said removable cover-0r top 22 will be held rigidly thereto and which includes a pair of set screws or the like as indicated at 25 and which are adapted to engage the upper sides'of the substantially inverted'U-shaped frame 18 in order that the gears .19 carried upon the shaft 16' will be forced downwardly and against the gears15 carried upon the shaft 14in order that the space between these gears 15 and 19 may be regulated according to the thickness'of the meat to be masticated or tendered therebetween.

In order to provide means for" guiding the meat to be tendered between the gears 15 and 19 I provide a plat-form 26 having a downwardly and inwardly inclined-portion" 27 which is then bent upwardly and downwardly upon itself as at'28' and' fitted to and receiving the one side of the bottom channel liar fori'ningthe frame in Order that the said platform 26 will be held rigidly supported upon the frame 10 and in order that meat and other substance so placed upon the platfrom 26 Will he readily and easily guided between the'tender'ingor masticating gears and 19 respectively. 7 The invention it is clearly apparent that after the substantially inverted U-sliaped frame 18'is adjusted through the instrumentality oftheset screws'25 and regulating thespace between the gears 15' and 19 respectively that the meat or other: suldstanceto he tendered may then be placed upon the top of the platform 26 and guided between the gears 1'5 and 19 when the same are rotated through the instrumentality' of the operatinghandle 21 formed upon the'outer end of the driving shaft 16. When it is desirous to take the device apart and cle'anthe'same it is quite obviousthat' upon removing the pin 24 from the free end of the top 22 that the samemay he swung upwardly and out wardly upon its'pivot 23 and inso doing the substantiall inverted U-shaped frame 18 will bereleaseda and readily and easily removed from the frame 10, after which the shaft 16 may be moved upwardly owing to the slotted portion provided 11170116 side thereof and after removing the same with its gears 19 the shaft 14; with its gears 15 may heiremoved in a similar mannen The invention is susceptible of' variouschanges in its" form proportions and'=-minor details of construction; and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as I properly fall within the scope of the: appe'ndedclaim. V

Having described my invention what is claimed is:

A' meat tenderer comprising" an elon'gated channeled frame, bearing meinberszcarried thereby, a drivenshaft journaled upon said bearings; a drive shaft carried by said frame and disposed in spaced superimposedrelation to the aforementioned shaft; gear memhers-arranged in-staggeredrelation'upon the shafts and adapted for int'ermeshjin'g' engagement, a s'ubstantiall'yinverted U-sha-ped frame oarried' by the first'me'ntioned frame and terminating to provide bearing portions for engagement with portions of the drive shaft, a' top for the elongated frame; and adjusting means carried thereby for engagement with the'inverted U shap'ed frame to regulate the biting action of said gears.

In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature.

WESLEY n JUREY, 

